Dialectic of Love in the Poems of Fakhreddin Eraqi, the Propagator of Ibn Arabi Ideas

Love is one the key concepts in Ibn Arabi mysticism that provides the base of the creation of existence. Ibn Arabi has own logic and style for expressing the truths of love. For this reason, Henry Corbin uses “dialectic of love” for Ibn Arabi style. He considers love as an essence that its truth is not obvious, since it is perceivable by experience, it has no unknown truth, because it can be understood by knowledge of presence (Farhanipour, 2015:46- 47). Fakhreddin Eraqi is one of the eminent scholars that have propagated the ideas of Ibn Arabi. Eraqi has reflected his ideas on love in his works including Lamat(Tastes) Oshaq Nameh( the Book of Lovers) and Ghazals. He is sometimes the narrator of Ibn Arabi thoughts in this scope and sometimes he retell his intuitions and observations in love. This article aimed at studying Iban Arabi ideas on love in Eraqi ghazals. This research was conducted by content analysis and the main ideas and thoughts of Ibn Arabi and Eraqi on love have been compared. The results showed that Eraqi’ ghazals are influenced by Ibn Arabi dialectic of love and the main difference lies in the manner of poetic expression and imaginative language of Eraqi.